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Re:Hire me and pay what you want, just give me interesting work by reggieband on Monday April 19, 2021 @02:19PM (#26866217)
So many responses here are of the type: "My org couldn't hire someone like that for legitimate reasons". They then list a series of fears they might have with such an employee. This is typical engineering thought, a pessimism firmly rooted in avoidance of problems. Engineers tend to focus on what can go wrong so that they can avoid negative outcomes. One myopia of our discipline is we don't often consider "what would the world look like if this went better than expected?"

So my advice to the OP is to focus on opportunities and positions that do not require going through engineering gatekeeping. Other disciplines tend to have more optimistic viewpoints and tend to be more willing to accept risk when they feel there is potential for high returns. I would recommend finding small startups that are looking for part-time engineering folks.

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Re:Hire me and pay what you want, just give me interesting work by actinium226 on Saturday April 24, 2021 @03:43PM (#26927723)
^This

My thought was that many responses are of the form "well good craftsmanship is boring and not 'interesting' - that's why we charge money for it" and I'm glad to have found lots of people that I DO NOT want to work with.

Good craftmanship - writing tests, documentation, making sure something works and actually ships and gets out the door - now that's interesting and rewarding. OP is trying to avoid those organizations that get caught in the trap of "we don't know exactly what we're building, so we're going to write some tests" or "well we could ship now, but we should probably add some more features just to be on the safe side." Places like that would be really boring.

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Re:Hire me and pay what you want, just give me interesting work by MarblePillar on Monday April 19, 2021 @03:46PM (#26867126)
That isn't just "so many responses", that is every single response. Never try to sell an engineer anything, especially not "your self".

Fortunately, engineers don't dispense budget.

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